Second opinion
Doctors told how the diagnosis of "cancer" is removed together with leggings
The doctors gathered at the American forum discussed cases from practice when patients were saved by the so-called second opinion - an appeal to another doctor after diagnosis and even after a course of treatment. Sometimes the escape from death was literal.
Doctors of any country do not like to discuss the mistakes of their colleagues with patients. But when this suddenly happens, such discussions cause a lively response. Therefore , not only doctors, but also patients joined the discussion about how important a second medical opinion is sometimes, started on the American website Reddit. As a result, the branch gained 13.4 thousand comments in a day.
One of the medical workers told how a woman treated with pain in her knee, damaged during a jog. Before the X-ray, she asked if she needed to take off her running leggings. The X-ray technician said that they should not be removed. She didn't. As a result, the images were obtained with a diagnosis of "stage 4 bone cancer". Fortunately, the woman went to another specialist, where she took a second picture, already without leggings. There was no cancer.
A primary care doctor told about the case of a two-year-old refugee girl who complained of a sore throat. The medic was confused that the child was very tense and breathing too consciously. Despite the language barrier, the doctor managed to send the girl and her parents to emergency specialists with a suspected foreign object in her throat. It turned out that the baby swallowed a pill battery that "ate" the esophagus.
One of the doctors shared a story about a patient who complained of vision loss. During the examination, it turned out that the man could not see his hand two inches from his eyes, but reacted to the light. The patient said that two months ago he had already turned to doctors with complaints of deteriorating eyesight and left with a diagnosis of conjunctivitis and an ointment with antibiotics. During these two months, the man did not come to the doctors again, because he did not have insurance and he was homeless. A doctor-user of the forum heard a "bell" here. After examination, the patient was diagnosed with syphilis of the eye.
One of the forum users told about her visit to a homeopath with complaints of night sweats and back pain. She was told about the phosphorus deficiency. The woman decided to find out an alternative opinion. It turned out that she had Hodgkin's lymphoma. "Go to real doctors," she advises.
However, not all patients are ready to go to the doctor even in an obvious situation. A student shared his professor's story about a fight in a bar. One of the participants in the brawl had a torn shirt, the paramedics asked the man to take it off to examine the cut, and then insisted on hospitalization. The victim refused, only the doctor who was called persuaded him to go to the hospital. The persistence of the doctors was not in vain. It turned out that the knife wound had grazed the liver and the man would have died in 3-4 hours without medical help.
One of the doctors told about a patient with abdominal pain who came to him from another doctor. There, in his documents, the "male sex" was indicated. The patient was informed of bloating and prescribed the appropriate medication. "But he turned to me for an alternative opinion. And I knew that this man had performed a sex change operation from female to male. After the examinations, a pregnancy of 27 weeks was revealed. Unfortunately, the child died. The patient himself was near death."
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